php-doc-en/reference/filesystem/functions/fscanf.xml
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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="function.fscanf">
<refnamediv>
<refname>fscanf</refname>
<refpurpose>Parses input from a file according to a format</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 role="description">
&reftitle.description;
<methodsynopsis>
<type>mixed</type><methodname>fscanf</methodname>
<methodparam><type>resource</type><parameter>handle</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>format</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>mixed</type><parameter role="reference">...</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
The function <function>fscanf</function> is similar to
<function>sscanf</function>, but it takes its input from a file
associated with <parameter>handle</parameter> and interprets the
input according to the specified <parameter>format</parameter>, which is
described in the documentation for <function>sprintf</function>.
</para>
<para>
Any whitespace in the format string matches any whitespace in the input
stream. This means that even a tab <literal>\t</literal> in the format
string can match a single space character in the input stream.
</para>
<para>
Each call to <function>fscanf</function> reads one line from the file.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="parameters">
&reftitle.parameters;
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>handle</parameter></term>
<listitem>
&fs.file.pointer;
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>format</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The specified format as described in the
<function>sprintf</function> documentation.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>...</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The optional assigned values.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="returnvalues">
&reftitle.returnvalues;
<para>
If only two parameters were passed to this function, the values parsed will be
returned as an array. Otherwise, if optional parameters are passed, the
function will return the number of assigned values. The optional
parameters must be passed by reference.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="examples">
&reftitle.examples;
<para>
<example>
<title><function>fscanf</function> Example</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$handle = fopen("users.txt", "r");
while ($userinfo = fscanf($handle, "%s\t%s\t%s\n")) {
list ($name, $profession, $countrycode) = $userinfo;
//... do something with the values
}
fclose($handle);
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>Contents of users.txt</title>
<programlisting role="txt">
<![CDATA[
javier argonaut pe
hiroshi sculptor jp
robert slacker us
luigi florist it
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="seealso">
&reftitle.seealso;
<para>
<simplelist>
<member><function>fread</function></member>
<member><function>fgets</function></member>
<member><function>fgetss</function></member>
<member><function>sscanf</function></member>
<member><function>printf</function></member>
<member><function>sprintf</function></member>
</simplelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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